Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-05-05
Personal AND GENERAL.

AT least four hundred children are SAID
to be down with the measles in Madison,
Wis Many adults are also afflicted Inc
public schools have been closed.
TUE nost-ofice inspectors, during the
month of March, made fifty seven arrests
of persons charged with criminal offenses
against the sanctity of the mail
A FRESH Zankoffist or Pro-Russian con-
spiracy has been discovered at Sonia.
Several men, who formerly were officers
in the Bulgarian army, have been arrest
ed for active participation in the new
movement
Iris understood that Lieutenant-C Colonel
Lasalle has declined an appointment to
succeed Lieutenant-Co Colonel Scott, de-
ceased, in charge Of the publication Of the
rebellion records. Assistant Adjutant-
General Vincent is spoken Of as likely to
receive the appointment.
The locked-out sllversmiths of New
York, at meeting on the Goth, decided
not to surrender on any conditions, unless
the bosses withdraw their obnoxious
stipulation in regard to the union.
THE Crown Prince Frederick William of
Germany is rapidly recovering his health
under the treatment he is receiving at
Ems. His hoarseness has entirely disap-
peared, and his appearance indicates COM
plete restoration to health within short
time.
COLLECTOR SEEBERGER Of Chicago has
been virtually exonerated by the recent
investigation of the charge of violating
the CivilService law.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has written a
strong letter to the Secretary of the In
terror in the matter of Guilford Miller, a
settler on Northern Pacific lands.
IT is understood on very high authority
that Antonio Perazzo, the italian. who
w. tracked N Canada and arrested
charge of numbering Maggie Albrecht in
| house of ill-fame at Newark, N. j., some
| months ago, has confessed.
WILLIAM HENRY O'SULLIvAN, who rep
resented Limerick County in the British
House of Commons for ten years follow
| ing 1874, died on the 9th, aged fifty eight
years. OSullivan was a Home Ruler
FIRE and a series of explosions de-
! stroyed the Bolton Dyeing, Printing and
| Bleaching mill at Bronxdale, N. Y, on the
| 9th.
Miss PALMS, the wealthy Detroit heire IS
| to whom ex-senator Jones, of Florida, has
| been so strangely devoted, is now in deep
| mourning for her father, and will shortly
go to Washington for quiet visit to her
relative, Mrs. James Hoban.
TUNNEL colliery, owned by the Phila-
delphia & Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany, on the outskirts of.Ashland, Pa,
the 9th, resulting in the death of five
persons.
| HENRY MAcKEY, Brush electric light
| lineman at Detroit, Mich, touched a live
wire while working on a pole on the 9th
He was fatally injured by falling to the
street. He was married; aged thirty.
By direction of the President Major
General Fred 81. Terry, in addition to his
| present duties, is assigned to the COM
mand of the Department of the Missouri
until permanent commander may be as
signed to the department.
| SENATOR c. K. DAVIS made the closing
| argument for the defense in the trial of
Frank Mead for the murder of Frank
| Farnsworth at st. Paul, Mimi, on the
27th, and the case went to the jury at five
o'clock. At 6:20 the jury returned YER
dict of not guilty.
| THE Hungarian primate will prese MT
| the Pope, on the occasion of the latter $
jubilee, a beautiful gold chalice, the
weight of which will equal that of two
hundred and fifty gold ducats.
| BLACK fever, accompanied with diph-
liberia, is making terrible ravages among
| the people in the valley of st. Maurice,
| Quebec. At Mt. Caribou eight deaths
have occurred in one family. There is NO
| prospect of an early abatement of the
| disease.
| JONATHAN W. JoRDoN, a leading lawyer
of Indianapolis, Ind, died on the 9th of
congestion of the brain, aged sixty-seven
| years. He was the most prominent Grim
| inal attorney in the State, and had defend
| ed over sixty murder cases IN his career,
/ only one of which was decided against
| him.
MARY HoAR and Maud Mcdonald were
thrown under an ore train on the Hecla &
Torch Lake (Mich.) railroad on the even
| ing of the Goth, coupling link breaking.
| Miss Hoar had her head cut from her
body, and Miss McDonald's legs were
crushed SO badly that amputation was
| necessary. Both victims lived at Lake
Linden.
| FIRE on the evening of the 9th de-
| stroyed the Wabash round-house, situat.
1 ed in the southwestern part of Des
| Mones, Ia, containing thirteen locomo
| tives. 1t was a wooden building, and
/ when the fire was discovered it was under
| such Roadway that nothing could stay the
progress of the flames. The loss will
scarcely fall below 100000, and may ex-
| coed that sum.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
| began its session at Atlanta, Ga, on the
9th.
PROF. WERNER, of Berlin, is painting
portraits of all the members of Crown
Prince Frederick Williams family. They
| are intended for a present for Queen Vic
toria from German residents of London
| on the occasion of Her Majesty's jubilee.
PIANO, editor of the Bucharest Lupta, has
| been sentenced in his absence to two
| years Imprisonment and to pay fine OF
s., 200 for describing the King of Roumania
| as an egotist, and adventurer and an
enemy of his country.
| COMMISSIONERS GOLDMAN promises some
| interesting facts about oleomargarine in
| the next bulletin from the Agricultural
| Department.
The steamer Benton is reported sunk
off the Island of Formosa and $50 lives
| lost.
THE will Of the late Alexander Mitchell,
of Wisconsin, was read to his family al
Milwaukee on the 18th. Among the be-
+, quests are a number of benevolent
| character.
/ PRESIDENT CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS Of
| the Union Pacific Railroad Company gave
some interesting historical testimony
| before the special Government commits
| sion on the 2Sth.
| CARDINAL MANNING has prepared a
document for the Tablet in which he in
dorses the organization and objects of the
Knights of Labor.
i Mr.. GLADSTONE varied the monoSony OF
j forensic warfare for Ireland on the 2Sth
| and stock inn Buffalo Bilrs Wild West
show. He was delighted with the sun
tutored savage" and got real neighborly
with Chief Redshirt
| FIRE in New York on the evening of the
2Sth destroyed the buildings Nos. 221, 223
225 and 227 Canal street. The losses ag
| gregate $40. 900, well insured.
| II IS stated on official authority that the
recaE Of Count Schouvaloff, Russian Am
| bassador to Germany, has. been decided
| upon by the Russian Government
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